Re: st: status of -ds- command

The issue of the "previously documented" status -ds- has popped up yet
again on Statalist.
I don't even want to try to defend "previously documented". We are
restoring -ds- to documented status.
All of which is to say, we realize our mistake. As I recall, our
concern about -ds- was that it was a strange combination of
easy-to-use features mixed with advanced features. We found the
combination philosophically offensive. So what did we do? We moved
-ds- to "previously documented", which I guess is something like
"double-secret probation", and at the same time we did nothing to
address the problem that -ds- was designed to address! The
offense to our sensibilities removed, we declared the issue closed.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
To be clear, I signed onto the stupid idea.
In my and StataCorp's defense, we spend very little time cleaning up
our own messes. A perfectly run company, however, wouldn't create
messes in the first place.
-- Bill
wgould@stata.com
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